Office Notifications

Sending Messages from the Office:

1. On Admire, go to Action Pad >> Notifications >> Classroom Notifications

    2. Find a classroom to send the message to using your preferred method of searching. Either by student, teacher, class or grade.

If the message is specifically for the teacher, regardless of which class she’s teaching at the time, you can switch from the Classroom Notification tab to the User Notification tab and she will get the message the next time she logs in – even if she does not log in until the next day. Session-based notifications will expire once the session is over.

Tips for searching:

1. If you get a phone call to dismiss a specific student, you can search by student.
2. For a specific teacher or class, search that way.
3. If you need to send to all teachers in a specific grade, or to multiple grades, use the grade option and select all applicable grades. All the teachers for those grades will then show up in the “Send to” section.

(Note: there is also an option to search by location if the action pads are programmed with specific

locations. This is helpful when there is no class in session but a message needs to be sent to a specific room, or if a teacher did not yet log in but has a location set for her session.)

1. Select the student/teacher/class/grade
2. Type the message in the text box or double-click on the quick note >> Choose the Priority (default is Medium) >> Click Send

The frequency of which a message will beep to the teacher depends on the message priority. To configure priorities, go to Action Pad >> Setup >> Notification Priorities.

1. The message will appear bolded in the sent messages tab on the right. Once the message is read by the teacher, it will no longer be bold.
2. If the message hasn’t been read yet and is no longer relevant, you can right-click on it >> press cancel.
3. You can also edit a message if it hasn’t been read: right click >> press edit

Scheduled Messages:

-If you would like to delay the time of a message, check off the ‘Scheduled Message’ and enter the date/time that you want the message to be sent.

Recurring Messages:

-Recurring messages gives you the ability to schedule messages to go out at a set time/date at the Interval of your choice. Ex: daily reminder to take attendance, weekly meeting etc.

1. Go to Action Pad >> Notifications >> Recurring Notifications
2. Click “New” >> enter the message, location/user, and schedule. >> Press ‘Auto next run’ >> Click OK

Sending Messages from the Action Pad:

1. Once logged in, click on the button by “SendOfficeMessage” to bring up the pre- programmed list of messages that can be sent.
2. Choose a message to send and it will be received by the office.
3. Some options on the list of messages may have dashes which indicates that you can choose the message and it will bring up the student list. Ex: ‘- - is absent today’ Choose the student’s name and it will replace the dashes in the message.

Receiving Messages from the Office:

1. Any time the office sends a notification, the action pad will flash and beep to notify the teacher that there is a new message.
2. The first few words of the message will appear on the screen. Click on the button near it to read the full message. (That will notify the office that the message was read)
3. Click on “reply” to bring up a list of pre-programmed responses. Choose one and it send to the office.
4. You can go back to read any sent messages by clicking “ViewReadMessages” on the home screen

Receiving Messages from the Action Pad:

1. When a message is sent from an action pad, it can be seen in Admire by going to Action Pads >> Notifications >> Classroom Notifications >> Receive Messages
2. Click “Load”
3. There is an optional feature of receiving an email notifying the office that a message has been sent from an action pad. If you would like this set up, you can let Admire Tech support team know which email should receive the notification.

Notifications/Quick Notes:

To create Quick Notes for the office-(will appear in the classroom notifications screen):

1. Tools >> List Editor >> Editable Lists >> Open the list called ‘AdntfQuickNotes’
2. Type the quick note in the text box >> click on the>> Click “OK”

To create notifications sent from the action pads (will appear in the list under “SendOfficeMessage”):

1. Tools >> List Editor >> Editable Lists >> Open the list called ‘AdntfOfficeNotifications’
2. Type the notification in the text box >> click on the  >> Click “OK”

To create responses that can be sent from the Action Pad to the office (will be used to reply to an office notification):

1. Tools >> List Editor >> Editable Lists >> Open the list called ‘AdntfResponses’
2. Type the response in the text box >> click on the  >> Click “OK”